Narrative EthicsHarvard University Press, 1995 - 335 strani The ethics of literature, formalists have insisted, resides in the moral quality of a character, a story, perhaps the relation between author and reader. But in the wake of deconstruction and various forms of criticism focusing on difference, the ethical question has been freshly negotiated by literary studies, and to this approach Adam Newton brings a startling new thrust. His book makes a compelling case for understanding narrative as ethics. Assuming an intrinsic and necessary connection between the two, Newton explores the ethical consequences of telling stories and fictionalizing character, and the reciprocal claims binding teller, listener, witness, and reader in the process. He treats these relations as defining properties of prose fiction, of particular import in nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts. |
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... University Press , 1988 ) , and vol . 79 of Yale French Studies , Literature and the Ethical Question ( 1991 ) . See also Zygmunt Bauman , Postmodern Ethics ( Oxford : Blackwell , 1993 ) . 9. See , for example , Ian Watt's classic The ...
... University Press , 1986 ) , also shows how narrative " rela- tionship " can affect representation . Levinas ' sense of desire ( the metaphysical drive to the other ) contrasts dramatically with all of these ( see TI ) . 50. Chambers ...
... University Press , 1992 ) ; and Marc Shell , Children of the Earth : Literature , Politics , and Nationhood ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1992 ) . 12. See Ian Watt's concept of " thematic apposition " in Conrad in the Nine ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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